"Don't, don't think about that sentence for more than two minutes, or blood will shoot out of your nose. The American medical profession doesn't know why we get an aneurysm, it's when a blood vessel bursts in our head for no apparent reason. There's the reason."
Natalie Portman (As Eleven): I'm eleven. I can move objects with my mind, but it gives me tiny nosebleeds.
Beck Bennett (as Fourteen): I'm fourteen. I can start fires with my mind, but every time I do it I throw up a little in my mouth.
Natalie Portman (As Eleven): Mama was right! There are more like me than I thought!
Beck Bennett (as Fourteen): I'm fourteen. I can start fires with my mind, but every time I do it I throw up a little in my mouth.
Natalie Portman (As Eleven): Mama was right! There are more like me than I thought!
— "Stranger Things 3
", a Saturday Night Live skit from 2018 parodying the usage of this trope in Stranger Things
", a Saturday Night Live skit from 2018 parodying the usage of this trope in Stranger Things